How Do You Feel About PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi's Saying That Women Can't Have It All?

People who say ANYBODY can “have it all” probably inherited it, stand to profit from it somehow, want to agitate and provoke through it, or genuinely believe that they can bend the time-space continuum.

Through the lens of people in the above group, one would feel:

Contempt for people who think they can’t have it all. Surely they must not be motivated enough or inspired enough. Or they’re just lazy. Or lacking ambition. Or defeatist. Or stupid. Then they should deserve not having anything at all!

Opportunistic. Think of all the systems one can sell, by packaging rags-to-riches “I now have it all because I followed my bliss and talk positive to myself every minute of the day and I dress for success and I faked it until I now am making it“-type of stories. The more we hate these stories, the more infomercials/books/seminars/dreams we can sell! This is how we grow the economy! (Or get lots of clicks from articles that gather hated/heated comments about the same debate question, and what better way than use a hell of a hooking headline that pisses off half the population — still — growing the economy! Remember the economy!)

Angry and excited and outraged and self-righteous at the same time. How dare this role model speak out of line about not having it all? She is supposed to be a shining example of how we can All!Have!It!All! That Woman needs to Lean in Harder, dammit! Roar Louder, Sister!

Perplexed. If only we have an app for managing our time and tasks better, optimizing our relationships by setting S.M.A.R.T. goals, have better Crucial Conversations(TM) with our loved ones, Win More Friends and Influence More People(TM), create the right Balanced Scorecard(TM), smart source our lives and figure out ways to Getting Things Done(TM) at 110% at 10% of our baseline needed hours of sleep… We may just make enough time to have it all!

Anybody who’s bound to a circadian rhythm and lives in any species-specific conglomerate a.k.a. society who adheres to some form of relationship-driven expectation knows that no one can have ‘all’ because our “all” is bottomless.

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